<div dir="ltr">I'm not saying it IS true for all CM, but I'm saying that if you want to know why the public perception is the way it is, this is a good way to start to understand that. Because your average person in the street only vaguely knows what CM is, and isn't terribly interested in finding out. This applies to lots of things with stigma attached - Islam, Christianity, CM, Democrats, Republicans, Freepers and so on. But to the extent such things are celebrated as they were in this article, your life is going to get more hassle as being a member of CM.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/28 Jym Dyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jym@econet.org">jym@econet.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
=v= Yet once again, exemplarizing the aberrant, misdefining<br>
the whole on the grounds of the negative behavior of a few.<br>
<br>
=v= Critical Mass has spread to nearly 500 cities, most of<br>
them rolling on the same night as the Olympia ride. Let's<br>
be conservative and guess that there were only 400 rides that<br>
night. Two of them were especially celebratory, because CM<br>
turned 16 this month in San Francisco and 11 in Chicago. But<br>
by God, since something negative happened at one ride off in<br>
a small college town across the continent, let's hold it up<br>
as YE TRVTH ABOUT ALL OF CRITICAL MASS.<br>
<br>
=v= Maybe we should start up a parallel movement. We could<br>
call it something like, oh, I dunno, Critical Thinking?<br>
<_Jym_><br>
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